Ownership Matters

01/09/2022

Owning Our Future: 's latest Remaking the Economy webinar looks at how kinship-based models of ownership support the revival of Indigenous communities and promote equitable regeneration with 's Steve Dubb, University of Hawai’i’s Kamuela Enos, Common Future’s Rodney Foxworth, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives’ Esteban Kelly, and Solidarity Economy’s Emily Kawano September 14th:

Remaking the Economy: Owning Our Future

24/05/2022

Amidst the Great Resignation, turns out not everyone is resigning their jobs.

In fact, some people are happily engaged in what could be called Good Work--meaningful, stable, collaborative, humane, and at good wages with a promise of advancement and agency.

In this webinar coming June 9, we will hear from worker-owners in enterprises aligned with the principles of the solidarity economy. A look inside the future of the work we need!

https://lnkd.in/gh6quqvR

02/01/2022

A really interesting conversation about ranching, raising beef, and co-ops with one of the founders of Old Salt Co-op (https://www.oldsaltco-op.com/, launching soon, near Helmsville Montana. It will be a multi-stakeholder farm-to-plate enterprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWPKUAXIRCM

An interview with Cole Mannix of Old Salt Co-op.https://www.oldsaltco-op.com/https://gosteward.com/projects/old-salt-co-op/revenue-based-financing-raiseVisit...

16/12/2021

Update for readers: Ownership Matters at 6 months • a conversation with Brian R. Corbin about Ohio’s 1978 labor + cooperative coalition and legacy • Júlia Martins Rodrigues reflects on cooperative cultures’ new moment and community-rooted transformation • on funding (vs. owning) the Green Bay Packers • books: Ben Wrobel & Meg Massey’s Letting Go • The Next Egg, challenging retirement plan assumptions

Labor & co-op histories meet in Ohio • Dawn of community-based market dynamics • Funding (vs. owning) the Packers • Philanthropy means Letting go

04/12/2021

Arizmendi’s way of resistance through education • talking with Evan Casper-Futterman about long-term thinking & the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative • Elizabeth Garlow on business & Catholic social teaching • books: Marcelo Vieta’s Workers’ Self-Management • takeaways from the CWCF 2021 conference • new The Industrial Commons video

Arizmendi’s way of resistance • Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative • Catholic social teaching & entrepreurship • Worker Self-Management

04/11/2021

Louis Kelso’s burden for a human-scale economy, and ours • conversation with Daniel Fireside, part 1: path to cooperative finance • fund profile: Boston’s LEAF Fund • reasons to read Mariana Mazzucato • reflecting on International Centre for Co-operative Management’s cooperative identity course • Canadian Worker Co-op Federation conference, Nov. 16–18 • enterprise design talk with Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), Nov. 19 • Arizmendi international gathering, Nov. 29

Who was Louis Kelso? • D. Fireside on cooperative capital • Boston’s LEAF Fund • M. Mazzucato contra extractive econ. • co-op identity with ICCM

03/11/2021

New issue just out!
https://ownershipmatters.net/newsletter-item/issue-14-louis-kelso-human-scale-legacy-daniel-fireside-cooperative-capital-boston-leaf-fund/

Who was Louis Kelso? • D. Fireside on cooperative capital • Boston’s LEAF Fund • M. Mazzucato contra extractive econ. • co-op identity with ICCM

08/10/2021

Ownership Matters newsletter no. 12:
Cooperative economy scaling: on whose terms? • catching up with Nathan Schneider 3 years after Everything for Everyone • lexicon: surveillance capitalism • Rodney North and EO Podcast Network’s new show, Why Worker Co-ops! • childcare case study from Capita • the meaning of “Nun Money” • Start.coop gets a site refresh

Frank Talk about Co-ops; Schneider on Scaling; Surveillance Capitalism (issue 12) Ownership Matters|Issue 12 Frank Talk about Co-ops; Schneider on Scaling; Surveillance Capitalism 5 October 2021 This issue: Editorial: A Frank Conversation Reflecting on Everything with Nathan Schneider New Lexicon: S...

08/09/2021

An inside look at the biggest co-op enabling bill in a long time!

Learn about a new bill in the US Senate that could transform the landscape for financing cooperative businesses.

25/08/2021

Felipe Witchger on investing differently: where to start • Talking with Steve Dubb of The Nonprofit Quarterly about economy and culture shift • The Center for Community Land Trust Innovation’s recent book, On Common Ground • Study-into-Action series with Art.coop • NCBA/CLUSA’s 2021 Cooperative IMPACT conference • Black Liberation Cooperative Academy from Cooperation New Orleans

Purposeful Investing in Practice; Economy Shift & NPQ; Now More than Ever, CLTs (issue 9) Ownership Matters|Issue 9 Purposeful Investing in Practice; Economy Shift & NPQ; Now More than Ever, CLTs 24 August 2021 This issue: Felipe Witchger: My Investing Journey — Part 2 Break Room: Steve Dubb o...

11/08/2021

Issue #8:
Felipe Witchger on awakening to the purposeful investor’s challenge • the Detroit Community Wealth Fund, a conversation with Margo Dalal • Rob Everts on Equal Exchange’s impact • wealth of listening: Bret Keisling’s EO Podcast Network • new Ownership Model Canvas from Greg Brodsky, Danny Spitzberg et al.

On the path to investing differently • Detroit Community Wealth Fund • On Equal Exchange, with Rob Everts • ESOP podcast • Ownership Model Canvas

17/07/2021

Issue #6:
On the vocation to build anew • Obran Cooperative’s story •
Greg Brodsky on what makes investing in co-ops different • Fri. 7/23: Co-ops & childcare with Capita’s Joe Waters and Zebras Unite • Apis & Heritage’s $30M Legacy Fund I … and more

https://ownershipmatters.net/newsletter-item/issue-6-what-is-a-cooperative-holding-company/

Editorial: What Is Our Job? • Obran Cooperative • What Makes Investing in Co-ops Different • Co-ops & Childcare Event • Apis & Heritage $30M Fund

30/06/2021

Issue #5:
Building the commons through steward ownership • How business investors & cooperative entrepreneurs can get together • Change-making at city scale with Doughnut Economics • the Inclusive Capital Collective • July 14: RoundSky Solutions collective decision-making workshop

Steward Ownership • Getting Investors and Cooperatives Together • Doughnut Economics • Inclusive Capital Collective • Collective Decision-Making

17/06/2021

Ownership Matters newsletter no. 4:
Care-economy challenges, cooperative solutions — a Zebras Unite-hosted conversation happening today • Scalability vs. (right-sized) growth and the U.S. worker-owned movement, with Kathy Gregg • Leo Sammallahti ​reports on European cooperatives, beginning with Finland! • and more

Can Co-ops Empower Patients and Homecare Workers? (issue 4) Ownership Matters|Issue 4 Can Co-ops Empower Patients and Homecare Workers? 15 Jun 2021 This issue: June 15 Event: What Can Co-ops Do About Healthcare and Homecare? The Break Room: Co-op Attorney Kathy Gregg on What the Movement Really Need...

10/06/2021

Save the date! (June 15, noon EST)
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/co-op-strategies-healthcare/register?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=profile_web&utm_campaign=profile

Register now for Zebras Unite's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Tuesday June 15, 2021 at 5:00 pm BST.